#and god GODDDD

[m1stm3]

“you don’t believe that sex is the most intimate thing that two can do together?” you repeat sukuna’s previous words with a raised eyebrow, skepticism lacing every word you spoke.

“i had concubines before i was devoted to you. do you really think i see intercourse as something significant?” he doesn’t even spare you a glance, all four of his eyes focused on carefully peeling the fruits resting in the bowl in front of him (mangoes, to be specific. a special order he put in with uraume for you). your eyes narrow at his words.

“so you don’t see intercourse with me as something significant?” that earns you a roll of his eyes.

“i don’t recall those words leaving my lips, woman.” he glances at you with a bored look, already much too used to your antics and the nonsensical conclusions you often pulled from his words (“it’s called reading in between the lines, ryo.” you had insisted. he chose not to debate you on it).

he sighs when you go silent, seemingly waiting for an explanation from him that would fix the small pout gracing your lips. he would’ve let you sulk if you were anybody else, but you weren’t.

“i realize the significance humans place on it now that i am yours, but i partook in the act purely for pleasure before you. it was simply to fulfill my fleshly desires.” he doesn’t need to look at you to know that the frown on your face still hasn’t faltered. in fact, the displeased look on your face probably only deepened upon the mention of him being intimate with other women.

“human customs are foolish, that will never change.” his hand lifts to your lips, a cube of mango held delicately between his fingers. he continues speaking only after feeding you the fruit.

“but if my stubborn little wife sees it as something of importance, then it shall be so.” he says the last part with a sense of finality, as if it was a part of his life that he accepted a long, long time ago.

you contemplate his words for a moment, your posture easing against the lavish pillows of your shared bed. you stall on swallowing the piece of fruit on your tongue, considering a question in that ever curious mind of yours.

“what’s significant to you, ryo?”

he pauses for a brief moment but doesn’t answer, simply bringing another piece of fruit up to your lips (whether the action was out of care or to keep your mouth occupied was unclear).

his lack of an answer was as good of an answer as any, though.

this was significant to him. the way he cut and fed you soft fruit with hands that had slaughtered armies, handling you as if you were made of fine china. never yelling, never arguing.

the king of curses devoted himself to you because deep in his heart he acknowledged his subservience to you.

that is what’s significant to him.

[all-horikoshi-sketches]

[rolypolyjolllly]

[vardapilled]

one tiny detail i loooved that showed just how intimately smoke knew annie was when he pulled out the box of matches so casually, almost like muscle memory, from behind the specific rafter in annie's home. he barely had to look at it to know it was there.

yes, i know the scene with the grave comes before this to show how grief binds them together. but that fluid movement of knowing where to put his hands to find the matchbox keyed you into seeing how often, how habitual his time was in annie's home. and on annie's end, how present smoke still was in her life–so much so that she kept a box there even in his absence.

[shouyuus]

came by to drop off this thought, vi loves when you wear specifically victoria secret™️ lingerie because she loves seeing the lil v branding on your body

wait but can we TALK about it tho (and also fun fact, vs has a line of crotchless lingerie -- i will leave that thought there for it to marinate)

u kno that one trend of girls being like "honey it's time for bed!!" and then standing there with their robe open, and their gamer!bf's coming like "but i gotta game -- SORRY BOYS GOTTA GO --"

CONSIDER. doing that trend with gamer!gf vi except instead of being naked ur in this brand new vs lingerie set, and you know how she gets when she's on a win-streak but you also wanna sleep (read: get railed) so you call for her like --

"vi? babe -- c'mere i want a kiss goodnight!"

and she like obviously, being the great gf she is, immediately comes to give u a kiss goodnight but the moment she sets eyes on you all dolled up in bed for her she's like --

"OKAY sorry guys i uh -- i -- there's an emergency i have to -- there's some uh --"

jayce and ekko and jinx all on the line like "OMG UR DEF ditching us for ur gf."

and vi's just like "SHUT UP the uh -- there's a leak in the -- the bedroom --"

and jinx is like "yeah a leak in your fucking panties, probably --"

ekko like "WHOA there we are NOT on mute --"

vi clicking off so quick she almost rips her headphones out of the jack from her computer, stumbling back into the bedroom to find you lying there laughing. she groans, her eyes going hooded --

"you're a liar... but at least you're a pretty one."

you shrug, batting your lashes up at her, "i wasn't lying -- i did want a kiss goodnight. i didn't say that was all i wanted though... did i?"

vi climbing on the bed to cage you beneath her, "no... that you didn't."

[holocrone]

SEVERANCE 1.06 | Hide and Seek 2.06 | Attila

[namisweatheria]

I feel like we don't discuss Nami's relationship with gender enough. Her entire character is so deeply informed by being a girl in a male-dominated pirate world and it's so interesting and so worth talking about.

The background creepiness of Bad pirate crews, which are most of them, how they tend to not have any female crew members at all, how they beckon any pretty young woman around to come play with them and join them. It's real bad. It's also like, a totally 2 dimensional portrayal of evil that is reserved for the most background of background characters.

However I think their ubiquity says a lot about how piracy is meant to be perceived by the public in One Piece, and is one of the strongest indicators of how prevalent misogyny is in-world.

It's very normal in One Piece for regular island inhabitants to have never met a Different class of pirate in their life. There's no reason for them to withhold judgement that maybe these pirates won't be like every crew that attacked before, and to wait and judge them by their actions. I mean frankly that would be irrationally weak self-preservation.

There are people who live peacefully under the flags of Yonkos who protect them, and feel loyalty and gratitude to them for it, but that seems to only be thing with very big name pirates. The East Blue, being the weakest and least populated, has no such plethora of powerful people and resulting turf wars.

So. Nami. Is very clearly implied to have never met any Different pirates before. I'm thinking about what that means. About how every group of pirates she stole from were creepy, dangerous men. How she started going out stealing when she was still a young child. How she didn't have a mother anymore to guide her or comfort her. How Arlong would grab her chin inappropriately, talk about her as a "human female", as property, and god knows what else.

How all the men in Arlong's crew treated her patronizingly, pretending they're all friends, teasing her and playing at respect when really not a single one of them ever stuck up for her or hesitated to accuse her of betrayal. Who were always ready to kill her if she refused to cooperate. Who grabbed her and intimidated her when they felt like it.

That's what she had to come back to after a close call with stealing from other predatory men, instead of the relief of home there was a dark, cramped room filled with endless hours of misery and isolation and blood. Where any one of her captors could barge in and demand new maps, work faster, where did you go, you took too long again this time. Endless threats and incursions.

I'm thinking about that her fight scene in Alabasta, where she tumbles and rips off her cape and uses it to catch her enemy's spikes, before leaping to her feet and running out the back door, all in one moment. How it makes her enemy reconsider her and think, "so the girl's not a total novice at fighting after all." What that implies about her experiences as a young thief. The times she wasn't fast or clever enough and had to fight and claw her way out. Why she always carried a staff and a knife. Why she was the only one before Chopper who had any medical knowledge or experience.

You know she was stitching herself up. And the weapons, how do you think she learned to use those? If any of the Arlong Pirates helped her it wasn't out of kindness and it wasn't gentle.

Then I think about Nojiko, and Bellemere's memory, and the only softness in a hard life. How easily Nami connects to every young woman experiencing hardship that she meets. How completely she dismisses the struggles of men unless they mean something to her and are going through something terrible. The way that Nami only has sympathy for women and children is easily noticeable in-text, but it's also something confirmed in those words by the author. And it's clearly because of the life she lived, the men who had all the power and only abused it, who saw her as nothing but a girl to take advantage of, without anyone aside from her sister clearly knowing and caring about any of it.

Nami clearly isn't bitter, she doesn't think the world owes her recompense, on the contrary she knows she is far from the only person in the world to suffer the things she has suffered. She is endlessly reaching out and kind, but only to those that she isn't sure would get help without her. Certainly, before Luffy, Usopp, and Zoro, no man ever reached out a hand to her without an ulterior motive.

I think when she sees a girl in trouble, a girl biting her lip to hold in a scream of grief, a girl running in the woods away from a monster, a girl captured by pirates, she sees someone who no one is coming for. Who no one will stick up for. A person without allies in a world against her. Whether it's actually true in this case or not, she runs straight for that girl anyways every single time.

[clumsypuppy]

TOGETHER AGAIN 🩷

[thyhauntedmansion]

“Nina is fine! She’s gonna come back!” I say as I’m put in a straight jacket, being escorted to Arkham.

[morriemonnie]

awestruck ... 💘💘💘

[twinstxrs]

just now realized that kristen started off fantasy high choosing the path of doubt & uncertainty by choosing to go with the bad kids. for unrelated reasons i need to lie down forever.

[oacest]

if they don't touch each other every twenty minutes they die (x)

[nibbelraz]

I want Mobei Jun to be so desperate in his hunt for finding Shang Qinghua that he prays to anyone willing to listen, which morphs to begging on his knees desperatly calling out to Shang Qinghua until he can actually hear him and hear just how much of a wreck his king is

[wilsons-three-legged-siamese]

HOLY FUCK WE ACTUALLY DID IT OH MH GOD OH MY GOD

NUMBER FUCKING 1

[voidzphere]

ohhhhmy god

[ahappydnp]

A NEW UNSEEN PHOTO FROM 2011 OH IM GONNA PHREAK